THE TRINITARIAN CONTROVERSY.THE EVANGELICAL REVIVAL.CHURCH ABUSES.
(J.H. Overton.)
- Fair prospect at the beginning of the eighteenth century [279]
- Contrast between promise and performance [279]
- Shortcomings of the Church exaggerated on many sides [280]
- General causes of the low tone of the Church:—
- (1) Her outward prosperity [280]
- (2) Influence and policy of Sir R. Walpole [281]
- (3) The controversies of her own and previous generations [282]
- (4) Political complications [282]
- (5) Want of synodal action [282-4]
- Pluralities and non-residence [284-6]
- Neglect of parochial duties [286-7]
- Clerical poverty [287-9]
- Clerical dependents [289]
- Abuse of Church patronage [290-2]
- Evidence in the autobiography of Bishop T. Newton [292-3]
- " " " Bishop Watson [293-6]
- " " " Bishop Hurd [296-7]
- Clergy too much mixed up with politics [297-8]
- Want of parochial machinery [298-300]
- Sermons of period too sweepingly censured [300]
- But marked by a morbid dread of extremes [301]
- Political sermons [302]
- Low state of morals [303]
- Clergy superior to their contemporaries [304]
- The nation passed through a crisis in the eighteenth century [306]
- A period of transition in the Church [307]
- Torpor extended to all forms of Christianity [308]
- Decay of Church discipline [309-310]
- England better than her neighbours [311]
- Good influences in the later part of the century [311-2]